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Illustrated Classics: Lorna Doone by Blackmore, R.D.
Category: Classics
Lorna Doone, a Romance of Exmoor is an historical novel of high adventure set in the South West of England during the turbulent time of Monmouth's rebellion (1685). It is also a moving love story told through the life of the young farmer John Ridd, as he grows to manhood determined to right the wrongs ...Show more
Lorna Doone by R.D. Blackmore
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
First published in 1869, "Lorna Doone" is the story of John Ridd, a farmer who finds love amid the religious and social turmoil of seventeenth-century England. He is just a boy when his father is slain by the Doones, a lawless clan inhabiting wild Exmoor on the border of Somerset and Devon. Seized by cu ...Show more
Lorna Doone by R D Blackmore
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Pamela Knights, Department of English Studies, Durham University. Lorna Doone, a Romance of Exmoor is an historical novel of high adventure set in the South West of England during the turbulent time of Monmouth's rebellion (1685). It is also a moving love story tol ...Show more
Lorna Doone by R.D. Blackmore
Category: Classics | Series: World's Classics Ser.
This is the only critical edition of this perennially popular story. Sally Shuttleworth's introduction finds, beneath the idyllic evocation of rural bliss and a tale of love and high adventure, a startling sub-text which rigidly defends Victorian values, and portrays a 'manly' hero constantly having to ...Show more
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